45. Creating Happy Brain Chemicals and Healthy Habits By Boosting Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels with Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD Awakening Aphrodite
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Watch The Full Episode on YouTube Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtF9MwAkTc&feature=youtu.be
Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, is the Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels, The Science of Positivity and Anxiety: What Turns It On and Turns It Off.
Our happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward survival behavior. Don't think others are getting happy chemicals all the time-- they're not!
Resources:
Site InnerMammalInstitute.org.
Podcast happybrainpodcast.com
Videos: YouHavePowerOverYourBrain.com
FB LorettaBreuningPhD
Tw @innermammal
YT https://www.youtube.com/innermammalinstitute Insta @inner.mammal.inst
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorettabreuning/
*New book coming out in September:
Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538144190/
Podcast: https://www.mentalhealthnewsradionetwork.com/our-shows/the-happy-brain/
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome To Awakening Aphrodite
00:27 Introduction
04:03 The Beginning of Loretta’s Journey
05:54 Leaving Academia
07:55 Researching Social Behavior in Mammals
13:09 Consciousness of Mortality in Animals
15:02 What Are Happy Chemicals?
21:04 Addiction To Social Media
23:47 Hormones vs. Neurotransmitters
28:57 What Are Endorphins
33:06 The Perception of The Happiness in Others
36:30 Confirmation Bias
39:27 The Formation of Myelinated Neurons
44:02 Rewiring Neural Pathways
49:04 Why Relationships Become Stagnant
51:14 The Unhappy Chemical
55:49 Social Comparison
57:27 Loretta’s Upcoming Projects
Thanks for listening to Awakening Aphrodite!
Watch The Full Episode on YouTube Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtF9MwAkTc&feature=youtu.be
Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, is the Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels, The Science of Positivity and Anxiety: What Turns It On and Turns It Off.
Our happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward survival behavior. Don't think others are getting happy chemicals all the time-- they're not!
Resources:
Site InnerMammalInstitute.org.
Podcast happybrainpodcast.com
Videos: YouHavePowerOverYourBrain.com
FB LorettaBreuningPhD
Tw @innermammal
YT https://www.youtube.com/innermammalinstitute Insta @inner.mammal.inst
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorettabreuning/
*New book coming out in September:
Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538144190/
Podcast: https://www.mentalhealthnewsradionetwork.com/our-shows/the-happy-brain/
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome To Awakening Aphrodite
00:27 Introduction
04:03 The Beginning of Loretta’s Journey
05:54 Leaving Academia
07:55 Researching Social Behavior in Mammals
13:09 Consciousness of Mortality in Animals
15:02 What Are Happy Chemicals?
21:04 Addiction To Social Media
23:47 Hormones vs. Neurotransmitters
28:57 What Are Endorphins
33:06 The Perception of The Happiness in Others
36:30 Confirmation Bias
39:27 The Formation of Myelinated Neurons
44:02 Rewiring Neural Pathways
49:04 Why Relationships Become Stagnant
51:14 The Unhappy Chemical
55:49 Social Comparison
57:27 Loretta’s Upcoming Projects
Thanks for listening to Awakening Aphrodite!
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